It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.